nntp (aka, usenet) client in kde?
by Gene Smith
I currently use t-bird with an nntp account pointing to gmane to read
this list and sereral others. Does kde have an nntp client program of
any sort? I don't see it as a possible new account type in kmail. Also,
search with kpackagekit yields nothing with "usenet" or "nntp" that is
kde specific.
-gene
3 years, 4 months
Sudo and limited rights
by Anne Wilson
I'm fed up of having to be root to read log files when troubleshooting. I'd
like to add a sudo line that gives me read-only rights to /var/log/ - is this
possible? I've not found any example of limted rights like that - and I don't
want to allow write access to anyone other than root.
Anne
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11 years, 7 months
kaddressbook in F16
by Peter G.
Will we not have a functioning kaddressbook for the release of Fedora 16?
Presently, no addresses are displayed. It has been like this for weeks (see
bz#742367).
KDE Addressbook of type traditional crashes when kaddressbook is launched and
the Akonadi addressbook shows nothing.
11 years, 7 months
Fedora 16 Final RC1 desktop validation: help required!
by Adam Williamson
Hey, everyone. It was a hard slog, but we finally managed to do an F16
RC1 build yesterday. We only have a few days before the go/no-go meeting
on Tuesday so we could really do with your help to get through
validation as fast as possible. If RC1 proves to pass validation we have
until Tuesday to do it, but really it'd be great if we could complete
validation over the weekend, so if any further issues are found, we have
a fighting chance to re-spin and re-validate on Monday.
The RC is available here:
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/16.RC1/
The desktop validation page, with all the tests, results matrix, and
testing instructions, is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_16_Final_RC1_Desktop
Please, if you have any spare time at all this weekend, grab the DVD or
live image for your desktop and help us fill out the validation matrix!
If you hit a bug which is clearly a 'fail' - the test just doesn't pass
at all - if you're testing GNOME Shell, GNOME fallback, or KDE, file a
bug and mark it as blocking 'F16Blocker'. (If you don't have the
privileges to do this, mail me the bug ID and I'll do it). If you're
testing any other desktop, file a bug and mark it as blocking
'F16-accepted'. Then report your result for the test as {{result|fail|
username|bugid}}.
If you hit a bug while doing a test but it doesn't really mean the test
is completely failed - just some issue that happened to come up while
you were doing the test - file the bug, and report your result for the
test as {{result|warn|username|bugid}}. use your judgment as to whether
the bug should be proposed as a blocker or nice-to-have or not proposed
at all, depending on how serious it seems.
We fixed quite a lot of desktop issues for RC1. For Desktop, we fixed
the issue with clutter-dependent apps crashing when hardware 3D
acceleration is not available and the subsequently-discovered issue
where clutter-based video playback and capture fails when hardware 3D
isn't available. For KDE, we fixed the two issues which prevented KDE
running properly in a VM with either qxl or cirrus drivers: KDE should
now work fine inside KVMs. For Xfce, we took a bunch of the
NTH-nominated fixes. So, I'm hoping this means we've already had quite a
lot of testing with the TCs, and the RCs should be pretty good.
Thanks everyone!
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11 years, 7 months
Defining keyboard actions
by Anne Wilson
I'm temporarily working on a Microsoft multimedia keyboard. To my surprise
the function keys do not behave as expected. F9, for instance, is recognised
as Send - at least when I try to program a keyboard shortcut, that's what
shows up (it doesn't send in KMail :-) ). F10-F12 don't seem to be
recognised.
I'm sure there used to be an app for defining multimedia keys, etc., but can't
remember what it was. I really need to re-program some of these keys, and
can't in systemsettings, so any help would be very much appreciated.
Anne
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11 years, 7 months
CPU hogs on F16
by José Abílio Matos
I am not sure if this is related with kde but since I am now seeing this
I thought that it was better to report it here.
1) I get PackageKit running full speed with a call like this:
/usr/bin/python /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py
get-packages unknown
Sometimes this is making the system to crawl due to disk access. I am
asking it in the case this is related with apper. (I have no reason to
suspect so but since it only showed up after apper appearance.)
2) With nepomuk active everytime on startup strigi wants to index some
files every time. After login, nepomuk remembers the option from last
run to suspend strigi but after sometime it ignores it and it goes
again. FWIW I have left it run until the end several times but after
inspecting the same static files over and over again it gets
frustrating. :-)
Other than these two nags f16 has been working perfectly to me (I will
ignore kmail2 for my own sanity for this report).
Regards,
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José Matos
11 years, 7 months
calligra for F16 (?)
by José Abílio Matos
Hi,
I have been using F16 for a couple of months and the only packages
that I miss that were available on kde-unstable (or was it testing) for
F15 but that are not available for F16 are the calligra* suite.
Now I know that you are busy with the deadline for F16 approaching but
since I saw the announce of a soon to come pre-release for calligra 2.4
I am asking out of curiosity.
Regards,
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José Matos
11 years, 7 months
Re: F15: subversion 1.7 / kdesvn
by Kevin Kofler
Reindl Harald wrote:
> but with subversion 1.7 the format in teh working directory
> is changed and the kde-kontextmenu will no longer offer
> display of history and missing some other entries
> http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7.html#wc-ng
The release notes also say that working copies need to be manually upgraded
with a conversion command. This strikes me as not being suitable for an update
to an existing release (and this includes F16 now, as we've passed the final
change deadline) at all. (The conversion also makes the working copies
incompatible with older releases of Subversion, which totally sucks for users
of shared home directories, but we can't do anything about that. :-( )
I also think this change might also require changes in various SVN GUI
frontends, not just kdesvn.
Kevin Kofler
11 years, 7 months